Socialist Faction of Aceh

The Socialist Faction was an informal grouping of socialist politicians in the Aceh Sultanate, active from 1860 to 1903. The Socialist Faction was formed by Acehnese farmers and laborers who were attracted to the idea of a Marxist society, in which the absolute monarchy and the liberal merchant class would be destroyed and replaced by a dictatorship of the proletariat. The faction opposed foreign trade, supported a planned economy, supported the secularization of the strongly Islamic country, supported full citizenship for immigrants and minorities, and supported an aggressive foreign policy. The party dissolved upon the Dutch annexation of Aceh in 1903.